David F. Wells Quotes
The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant, His grace is too ordinary, His judgment is too benign, His gospel is too easy, and His Christ is too common.
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
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I am married.
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I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
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vagueness is a 'romantic' value.. ..an emphasis on geometry is an emphasis on the 'known', on order and knowledge.
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Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes.
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Oh, Mexico.It sounds so sweet with the sun sinking low.Moon's so bright like to light up the night,Make everything all right.
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One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.
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It's called a private life for a reason - it's mine, and it's special and sacred.
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New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.
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My mom is very excited for the fact that I got signed and, of course, being a mom, she's going to be a little worried.
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I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same goes for unions.
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The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant, His grace is too ordinary, His judgment is too benign, His gospel is too easy, and His Christ is too common.
